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2 months

My current "ship an idea stupidly fast" stack: ⚛ Framework: @nextjs 🎨Styling: @tailwindcss @shadcn 🔒Auth: @ClerkDev △ ORM: @prisma 📨Comms: @SendGrid 💵 Payments: @stripe ☁️ Hosting: @vercel You can literally experiment with ideas for free. Doesn't work? Throw it out…

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2 months

I signed my first term sheet ✅

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1 year

First deposit 💸 First purchase 💰 It's the first time I am a user of an app that I help build from scratch🧪 The feeling is hard to put into words #buildinpublic #startup

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9 months

@ilyamiskov It's always the left one -_-

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9 months

@trunarla This is a great question. I got asked this question for my interview at Venmo and there are so many ways to approach it that you can immediately tell where the candidates strengths & preferences are

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Alejandro

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8 months

Here is another pro-tip: Don't let your engineers build internal tools early on. Their time is better spent delivering core product value to users. Use no-code for one-off solutions needed today. @retool is a personal favorite of mine. Early on, you should prioritize scaling…

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9 months

Pro-tip: Don't make your product team build your marketing site. It is better to use a Webflow template or hire marketing pros. Your engineering resources are better spent building your core product, not maintaining a static site. 👩‍💻

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4 years

First meetup of the decade: @SvelteSociety 😄👨🏻‍💻starting it right with an amazing talk about @sveltejs stores by @swyx and the use of bitmasks by @Rich_Harris !

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1 year

@ProductHunt Figma, notion, slack. All day, everyday 😎

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Alejandro

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9 months

@andrewjclare I avoid having social media on my home to stay productive

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9 months

@DThompsonDev - Insatiable hunger for learning - Grit, not giving up - Empathy for others - Communication skills

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Alejandro

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10 months

Replaced chakra/vanilla tailwind with @shadcn Every so often there comes a ui library that completely changes the game for me. That is Shadcn right now. Plus you can't beat the PFP. I've also been using @vercel more, it's becoming more of a 1 stop shop with analytics etc.

Alejandro

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11 months

My stack to build and ship something in a couple hours: ⚛ Framework: Nextjs 👨🏻‍💻 Data: Postgres ♻️ ORM: Prisma 💅🏻 Styling: tailwind css/chakra UI (my favorite) ☁️ PaaS: Vercel/Railway 📧 Comms: Sendgrid #buildinginpublic #startups

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Alejandro

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1 year

In #startups , going to the office most days > than being remote Don’t tell me commute is hard, I commute 2 hours (2 NYC subways and a 10 min walk) each day just to be with my teammates and enjoy every second of it. I’ve done fully remote, hybrid, and in office. And being in…

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Alejandro

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9 months

Not really growth in the literal sense 😂 13 years in the making

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With 2 pictures, Define GROWTH

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9 months

Tech stacks don't attract users. Product do 💡 Your customers don't care what's under the hood. They just want great experiences. Keep your onboarding simple and your UX smooth. Deliver core value fast.

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Alejandro

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9 months

And just like that, we went from one account to four

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Alejandro

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3 years

Sooo! Couldn't wait to share this but I'm officially joining @with_archie as full-time Head of engineering! Very hard to part ways with @Venmo nothing but beautiful things to say! If you are a creative freelancer/looking to become one, please reach out, let's be friends :)!

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3 years

Sharing some pretty exciting news tomorrow 🤙🏻💥🚀 Can’t wait

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Alejandro

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5 years

Amazing to be part of the first @sveltejs meetup! Thanks @Rich_Harris and @swyx for putting this together!!!

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Alejandro

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1 year

Family dinner & launch party with the @ochowealth crew 🤍 Thanks to everyone that came!

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Alejandro

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5 years

Made my first OSS contribution ever to a project that I really like, @storybookjs ! This marks a new milestone in my journey as a dev! Hope to make a regular thing 😄

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Alejandro

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3 years

One of our users has already been paid 15k through @with_archie within a month. Having this kind of impact in someone’s life fills me up 😄

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Alejandro

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2 months

The @carryhq_ fam grew so fast 🤯 so blessed to call this team family

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Alejandro

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6 months

There's nothing more permanent than a temporary solution

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Alejandro

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11 months

@peduarte Same. Feels weird, developer experience vibes are off with next 13. Will take sometime getting used to

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Alejandro

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4 years

"Authentication is about proving who you are. Authorization is about proving what you can do" I just saw this in @FrontendMasters ' @scotup graphql advanced tutorial and I'm 🤯. What a great way to put it.

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Alejandro

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8 months

4 things you will never regret: - Learning to code - Starting a side hustle - Exercising - Eating healthy

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Alejandro

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10 months

I did my first-ever unassisted pull-ups today at 33 years old 🙃 It's never too late to start

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Alejandro

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11 months

I've suffered from ADHD + anxiety all my life, most of it went undiagnosed. On top of that, I was very, very obese. At my top, I used to weigh 305 lbs (primarily due to anxiety eating), coupled with super bad nutrition and a lack of exercise, which probably fueled my mental…

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Alejandro

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7 months

Linkedin recruiters are back.. nature is healing itself

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Alejandro

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9 months

@Axylos Disagree. This is basic knowledge of how the internet works and a developer should know it as its core to their career. Specially if you are a “senior developer”. There is a frontend way to answer it and there is a backend way to aswer it. And honestly if you dont even…

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Alejandro

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7 months

HUGE NEWS 🚨 We are now Carry!

Ankur Nagpal

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Announcement time: We're rebranding from Ocho to Carry It's been an incredible 12 months helping business owners build wealth But as our platform & ambitions have grown, we needed a new name that better reflected our vision Say hello to Carry:

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Alejandro

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8 months

I'm excited to be able to share this side project we've been working on at @ochowealth !! We will start rolling this out in closed beta in the next couple of weeks. If you are interested in joining the waitlist, let me know in the comments 👇🏼

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Alejandro

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2 months

You can launch your startup before you have a product. All you need is a landing page and a waitlist. Believe it or not, you can also start charging for your product by extending a discounted price that the user can maintain for life. Great way to validate an idea.

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Alejandro

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11 months

One thing you don't really hear much about when starting a new #startup is about the toll it can take on the relationship with your significant other. Building a start up is one of the most joyful but time consuming things you'll ever do. You get sucked right into it. In his…

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Alejandro

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9 months

Lord, give the confidence of the sales person following up on my email for the 15th time with “in case you missed this”

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Alejandro

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8 months

Just because it exists doesn't mean you can't build it better. Facebook wasn't the first social network. Google wasn't the first search engine. Your unique take could be the next big thing. Don't let existing solutions deter you. The world needs new perspectives. If you have a…

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Alejandro

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1 year

When building a new product, speed is of the essence, and re-using vs. re-inventing is key. Working with @ochowealth has taught me this more than any other product I've worked on. Here are some lessons I've learned:

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Alejandro

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11 months

#cycling in Central park @ 7am today, what a beautiful place.

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Alejandro

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8 months

I was today years old when I realized that .csv stands for Comma Separated Values 🤯

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Alejandro

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10 months

Is there a startup that automatically cancels a subscription before the trial ends? Asking for a friend 😜

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Alejandro

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10 months

You can steal an idea but you can't steal passion

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Alejandro

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8 months

You know that big, shiny feature sitting on your product roadmap? Cut its scope in half. Trying to build the perfect v1 often leads to tons of delays and what we call scope creep. Be laser-focused on the core user need. Cut out the nice-to-haves. Hustle to ship that…

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Alejandro

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11 months

My stack to build and ship something in a couple hours: ⚛ Framework: Nextjs 👨🏻‍💻 Data: Postgres ♻️ ORM: Prisma 💅🏻 Styling: tailwind css/chakra UI (my favorite) ☁️ PaaS: Vercel/Railway 📧 Comms: Sendgrid #buildinginpublic #startups

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Alejandro

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1 month

Les cuento un poco sobre mi trayectoria... Llevo casi una década trabajando como software engineer. He tenido la suerte de trabajar en empresas enormes como General Electric y PayPal, y también he creado dos empresas desde cero, llegando a tener 15 empleados en solo un año. En…

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Alejandro

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10 months

@CamCovington Came to the comment section for this

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Alejandro

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3 years

The new @with_archie HQ!!! So thrilling and exciting to be back in an office with the gang!

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Alejandro

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1 year

One thing @ankurnagpal said the other night that stood out to me: "Headcount is the wrong vanity metric to follow" It's sad how often I see this happen. Many founders think they aren't shipping fast enough because their #startup needs more engineers. In reality, you probably…

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Alejandro

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9 months

Not sure who needs to hear this: There will be good days, there will be bad days but just keep showing up. All your hard work is going to pay off.

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Alejandro

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10 months

Who is building cool shit in Latin America?

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Alejandro

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5 months

After 4 years of not coming to Nicaragua, and I get greeted with this 🇳🇮

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Alejandro

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3 years

Loving the tech stack I’m using for @with_archie ! All typescript, of course, it me. @vercel ’s Nextjs + Chakra in the front. @apollographql + postgres in the back (w/ @typegraphql + @typeormjs ). All hosted in @AWS 🙌

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Alejandro

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10 months

I'm finishing up a feature at @ochowealth that allows users to transfer money between their brokerage accounts. It's the first time that my motivation to finish the feature fast af is that I also need it 🤣

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Alejandro

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2 years

Last night I was getting a quick demo environment up using @render for the first time. It took me about 1/2 hour from when I entered their dashboard to deploy Nextjs UI, Nestjs API, and Postgres. Best of all, seamless integration with @doppler . It could not have been easier.

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Alejandro

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6 months

I don't know who needs to hear this, but you can launch your startup before you have a product. All you need is a landing page and a waitlist.

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Alejandro

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10 months

I didn't choose the startup life, it chose me 😎

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Alejandro

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10 months

@thewizardlucas 😂😂😂

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Alejandro

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6 months

When building in a public, don't be afraid that people will copy your idea. Be afraid if no one wants to copy it.

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Alejandro

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1 year

Full house tonight! @ankurnagpal killing it 🚀 Thanks @HustleFundVC for hosting!!

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Alejandro

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3 years

Just added @LogRocket to @with_archie and my first impression is that I am speechless 😶🤯. What a great tool, the setup was so simple 🥺 Super eager to keep exploring it and share my thoughts

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Alejandro

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3 years

¡He publicado mi primera lección en español! Sobre un tema muy querido para mi GraphQL En esta lección aprendemos como crear un servidor con Apollo Server Express @eggheadio

Crea un Servidor de GraphQL usando Apollo Server Express

En esta lección, aprenderemos como crear un servidor básico de GraphQL usando Apollo Server Express. GraphQL un lenguaje de consulta que nos permite hac...

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- Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t buy yourself - Dont work for anyone you don’t respect and admire - Work only with people you enjoy Lucky af to have a 3

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Alejandro

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2 months

To a person with a hammer, every problem is a nail

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Alejandro

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9 months

Recently discovered that @canva makes it super easy to make video thumbnails 🤯 For someone that sucks at design this tool is just wow What do you think? Yay or nay?

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Alejandro

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1 year

Parts unknown: CDMX edition 🇲🇽 Food tour with the @ochowealth fam 🙌

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Alejandro

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5 months

ok @carryhq_ I see u 😍 new rates just dropped

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Alejandro

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3 years

True story: I first learned @reactjs through @eggheadio back in the day. It was a video from Dan Abramov. And every company I've worked at has given me a membership. You can say egghead has been a huge part of my growth. AND NOW WE HERE! 🤩

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3 years

¡He publicado mi primera lección en español! Sobre un tema muy querido para mi GraphQL En esta lección aprendemos como crear un servidor con Apollo Server Express @eggheadio

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9 months

@Axylos This is an awesome reply! This is what I mean tho, there are so many ways to answer the question and how you answer it will tell me how much you know or understand. Interviews are not about only right or wrong answers, they are about also understanding how much the candidate…

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Alejandro

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10 months

Did you know that 401(k)s can change your entire perspective on taxes and retirement? After nearly one year of building, @ochowealth , this is how my views on retirement and 401ks have changed. Growing up in Latin America, the concept of 401(k)s was foreign to me. I never…

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Alejandro

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3 years

Huge day for the @with_archie fam today. A dream come true. Today we processed our first in-product payment in live beta 💸 cc. @yreguero_ @dylan_hattem @FionaWicht

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Alejandro

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1 year

Yesterday we made our newest product live! @ochowealth IRAs are here 🤑 You can now open a Roth or Traditional account at Ocho. This team is on 🔥. In 2 months, we shipped Solo #401k and #IRA accounts. Newer features like Financial Advisor are on the horizon! On top of that,…

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Alejandro

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2 months

As a tech company, infra will always be one of the most important things. There are plenty of great services who offer very quick plug and play solutions. Eventually, you outgrow that service and must invest time and resources migrating to a cloud provider like AWS or Azure.…

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Alejandro

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10 months

*takes deep breath* I’ve been preparing for this moment my entire life. The nerd kit:

Ilya Miskov

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Do you have some sort of a tech kit for traveling?

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Alejandro

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3 years

Hola amig @s ! @with_archie esta buscando crecer su equipo🚀Tenemos posiciones frontend y backend! Si tienes mas de 5 años desarrollando aplicaciones con #node , usas #react , #graphql y quieres venir a resolver problemas interesantisimos conmigo remotamente, escribeme al DM 😎 RTs🙏

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Alejandro

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3 years

Hi, fam! @with_archie is looking to work with a #ui engineer to help build one of the most kick-ass fintech websites I have ever seen! More info: Please feel free to share with your networks :D Have a great day!

Alejandro Roman on LinkedIn: #freelance #typescript #react #css #html #d2c #b2b #fintech #ui

Hi, fam! Archie is currently redesigning its website and we are looking to work with a #freelance UI engineer to build one of the most kickass designs I have…

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Alejandro

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1 year

Still a work in progress, but one of my favorite things about @chakra_ui is how we handle themes. It makes it very easy to integrate your design system into theirs. Any tips/patterns on how to improve this?

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Alejandro

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11 months

MY FIRST AUTOMATED PORTFOLIO IN @ochowealth !!! Yes it's only 20 bucks right now. Don't judge 🤣

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Alejandro

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9 months

Very excited to have finally been able to do this. I'm experimenting with short-format videos here on X. In this video, I do a high-level overview of how I achieved Q&A with a document using @pinecone , @OpenAI & Typescript! I'm def. doing a longer format course, so stay tuned.…

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Alejandro

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11 months

Having fun playing padel with the @ochowealth crew!!

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8 months

Sunday mornings 🤍 Made with love by beautiful girlfriend

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2 months

I’ve come to the conclusion that most fintechs are just a wrapper around an ops team

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10 months

11 months into @ochowealth we now have some reusable components and our shipping cadence has greatly improved. We were able to ship regular (taxable) brokerage accounts extremely fast. Literally like in a week. Being a user myself, I now have the 3 account types with Ocho:…

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Alejandro

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9 months

Did you go to school to become a software engineer or are you self-taught? I'll start. I'm self-taught! Many of the best software engineers I've met didn't go to school to become one. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise

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10 months

Building side projects publicly is my secret sauce to learning. Ocho is my main squeeze and nothing is changing that for the next few years. Ocho is the first place where I feel at home in a long long time. If you see me sharing stuff I built, it was just to learn and share my…

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Alejandro

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1 year

Few things we did last night to prep for elevated traffic for @ochowealth 's launch: - Increased DB instance size - Enable Autoscaling groups to have a min of 2 running instances and a max of 10 - Added WAF in monitoring mode - Monitoring tools: Cloudwatch, @LogRocket @getsentry

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Alejandro

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10 months

Last night in Merida, Mexico we ran into and rescued a whole nest of turtles that was completely out of their way and wouldn’t have made it other wise 🥹 This morning we found even more that would have been bird food Hopefully improved their odds of survival

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Alejandro

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10 months

Mission accomplished 🚀

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10 months

I'm finishing up a feature at @ochowealth that allows users to transfer money between their brokerage accounts. It's the first time that my motivation to finish the feature fast af is that I also need it 🤣

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9 months

@AnthonyCastrio Overhiring. Headcount is a vanity metric. Early stage start ups don't need more that 2-4 great engineers.

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Alejandro

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1 year

We launched publicly on Dec 8th. It's been an incredible three months. 📈+328.5% user growth 💰 6 Figures in AUM and growing Thanks for trusting us 🫶 #buildinpublic #startups

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Alejandro

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9 months

Building an okay auth service takes days! Why would you do that to yourself?! 😛 I've recently discovered @ClerkDev ! Here are my thoughts 👇🏼 #nextjs #typescript #authentication

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Alejandro

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10 months

If you hire people for your start up You should enable them not supress them

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Alejandro

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3 years

Sharing some pretty exciting news tomorrow 🤙🏻💥🚀 Can’t wait

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2 months

The name of the game is to ship fast and ship often. Don't stay on localhost. Get your ideas out there.

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2 years

Those night sessions hit different

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Alejandro

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8 months

Your logo should be the least of your worries when building a new startup

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8 months

I often think about the opportunity in Latin America despite lower purchasing power. The population of ~650m, but many tools aren't adapted for that massive market. To scale there, you need a low-margin, high-volume approach. But the volumes are unparalleled if you can make…

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10 months

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality Don’t let anxiety get the best of you

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1 year

@ochowealth takes over #cdmx ! Kicking off our first offsite 🎱

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3 years

Few months later still very happy with this decision. Thinking about writing a blog post on How we built a production-ready app using typescript, graphql and aws. Any interest on this?

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3 years

Loving the tech stack I’m using for @with_archie ! All typescript, of course, it me. @vercel ’s Nextjs + Chakra in the front. @apollographql + postgres in the back (w/ @typegraphql + @typeormjs ). All hosted in @AWS 🙌

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